East Asia Art

East Asian Art Library Guide from Prof. Courtney Hunt, The Ohio State University

Museums

• Taiwan National Palace Museum
• National Museum of Korea (includes online exhibits)
• Cleveland Museum of Art:
  • Chinese Art
  • Japanese Art
  • Korean Art
  • Past Exhibits
    • China: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art , Caves to Tombs, Contemporary Chinese Artists
    • Japan: Shinto, Modern Japan, Stories in Japanese Art, Japan's Floating World, Yoshimoto Nara , Rinpa
    • Korea: Old and New in Korean Art,  Popular Art from Early Modern Korea, Modern Korean Art
• National Gallery of Art
• National Museum of Asian Art (formerly Smithsonian Freer Sackler Museum of Art)
  • Chinese Art
  • Japanese Art
  • Korean Art
• The Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • Asian Art
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• Asian Art Museum (extensive online collection)
• Detroit Institute of Art
  • Learning Resources: Lessons from Asian Art, Seasons in Bloom, Time and Place, Cultural Diplomacy through Ceramics
• National Intangible Heritage Center in Korea
• Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, The Ohio State University (Manga)
• Toledo Museum of Art (Visual Literacy)

Teaching Resources Lesson Plans

• NCTA/EASC Lesson Plans: Art & Architecture
• An Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy. Asian Art Museum
• Muromachi Period Tea (1338 - 1573). Asian Art Museum
• “Web Site – The Best of Asian Art at the Tip of Your Fingers for Use in the Classroom or at Home.” Asian Education
• Teaching Resources for East Asia Art.” NCTAsia
• Stokes, Angie.  “Message in A Bottle Cap: Stories for All Classes as Told by Korean Art.”  Education About Asia, vol. 23, no. 3, Winter 2018, pp. 65-67. 
• Teaching About Asia: Lesson plans using the images of Astro Boy, TEA Online Curriculum Projects
• A Case Study of Heian Japan through Art: Japan's Four Great Emaki, University of Colorado
• A Case Study of Medieval Japan through Art: Samurai Life in Medieval Japan, University of Colorado

Further Reading and Other Sources

• Addiss, Stephen.  How to Look at Japanese Art.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1996.
• Amster, Martin, and Lier Chen. Buddhist Art Styles and Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Road. Vol. 9, no. 1, 2004, p. 6.
• Crowley, Cheryl, and Yu Li. “Calligraphy in East Asia: Art, Communication, and Symbology.” Education About Asia, vol. 21, no. 3, Winter 2016, pp. 19–21.
• Jordan, Brenda G. “The Trickster in Japanese Art.” Education About Asia, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 26–31.
• Karetzy, Patricia Eichenbaum. “Contemporary Chinese Art – Uses and Reuses of the Past.” Education About Asia, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 39–43.

Artists (contemporary)–limited to the top three for each region:

• China

  • Ai Weiwei, Contemporary Chinese Artist (Article, Video)
  • Liu Bolin, Chinese photographer known for creating camouflaged images speaking to the ideas of identity and commercialism
  • Xu Bing, Chinese installation artists who takes traditional artforms like printmaking and calligraphy and reimagines them in large spaces

• Japan

  • Hamada Shoji, Japanese ceramic artists and a “Living National Treasure”
  • Shiko Munakata, Japanese woodblock print artist, well known for his modern use of Buddhist imagery
  • Yayoi Kusama, Japanese installation artist best known for her use of dots and light

• Korea

  • Nam June Paik, Korean mixed media artist and inventor of the term “Electronic Superhighway”
  • Jin Joo Chae, Korean mixed media artist who uses the image of Choco pies as propaganda art (interview)
  • Kim Ho-Suk, Korean painter best known for paintings of comfort women
  • Ik-Joong Kang (Moon Jar/Longing for Home): Presentation